JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
Mitsubishi Electric System & Service Co., Ltd, Tsukuba, Japan
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
Eliminating harmful beam halos is the most important technique for high-intensity proton accelerators. Therefore, beam halo diagnosis is indispensable and becomes more and more important. At J-PARC, a wide dynamic range monitor was installed in the beam transport line in 2012. The device is a two-dimensional beam profile monitor [*, **], and it has a dynamic range of approximately six digits of magnitude by using Optical Transition Radiation and fluorescence screens. The FNAL accelerator complex has been upgrading through increased beam intensity and beam quality. A new beam halo diagnostic device is required in the beam transport line between the booster and recycler. It will be manufactured in a collaboration between J-PARC and FNAL as a part of the U.S.-Japan Science and Technology Cooperation Program in High Energy Physics. We are redesigning the monitor to satisfy FNAL specifications for beam energy, intensity, and size. The equipment will be manufactured at J-PARC and then shipped to FNAL in 2024. In this report, the design of the device will be described.
* https://accelconf.web.cern.ch/IBIC2013/papers/tucl2.pdf
** http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/HB2014/papers/tuo2ab04.pdf
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Non-invasive profile monitors offer a significant advantage for continuous, online monitoring of transverse beam profile and tuning of beam parameters during operation. This is due to both the non-destructive nature of the measurement and the unique feature that some monitors have of being able to determine both transverse profiles in one measurement [1]. One method of interest for making this measurement is the use of a thin gas curtain, which intercepts the beam and generates both ions and photons, which can be collected at a detector situated perpendicular to the gas sheet. This study will investigate the requirements for developing such a measurement device for use at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), which produces high-intensity, multi charge state, heavy ion beams. Included will be an initial design specifications and an analysis of alternatives between ionization and beam-induced fluorescence measurement techniques for acquiring signal from the gas sheet.
[1] I. Yamada, M. Wada, K. Moriya, et al, "High-intensity beam profile measurement using a gas sheet monitor by beam induced fluorescence detection," Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24, 042801, 2021.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
The next generation of free electron lasers will be the first to see the performance of the laser strongly dependent on the materials properties of the photocathode. A new injector proposed for the LCLS-II HE is an example of this revolution, with the goal of increasing the photon energy achievable by LCLS-II to over 20 keV. We must now ask, what is the optimal cathode, temperature, and laser combination to enable this injector? There are many competing requirements. The cathode must be robust enough to operate in a superconducting injector, and must not cause contamination of the injector. It must achieve sufficient charge at high repetition rate, while minimizing the emittance. The wavelength chosen must minimize mean transverse energy while maintaining tolerable levels of multi-photon emission. The cathode must be capable of operating at high (~30 MV/m) gradient, which puts limits on both surface roughness and field emission. This presentation will discuss the trade space for such a cathode/laser combination, and detail a new collaborative program among a variety of institutions to investigate it.
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) is upgrading the storage ring to a hybrid seven-bend-achromat design with reverse bends, providing a natural emittance of 41 pm at 6 GeV. The small dynamic acceptance entails operation in on-axis swap-out mode. Careful consideration is required of the safety implications of injection with shutters open. Tracking studies require simulation of multiple simultaneous magnet errors, some combinations of which may introduce potentially dangerous conditions. A naive grid scan of possible errors, while potentially very complete, would be prohibitively time-consuming. We describe a different approach using biased sampling of particle distributions from successive scans. We also describe other aspects of the simulations, such as use of 3D field maps and a highly detailed aperture model.
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
RadiaSoft LLC, Boulder, Colorado, USA
UCSC, Santa Cruz, California, USA
The Advanced Photon Source Upgrade will use a multi-bend achromatic lattice to reduce vertical and horizontal beam emittances by one- and two-orders of magnitude respectively; in addition operating current will double. The resulting electron beam will be capable of depositing more than 150 MGy on machine protection collimators creating high-energy-density conditions. Work is underway to couple the beam dynamics code Elegant with the particle-matter interaction program MARS and the magnetohydrodynamics code FLASH to model the effects of whole beam dumps on the collimators. Loss distributions from Elegant are input to MARS which provide dose maps to FLASH. We also examine the propagation of downstream shower components after the beam interacts with the collimator. Electrons and positrons are tracked to determine locations of beam loss. Beam dump experiments conducted in the APS storage-ring, generated dose levels as high as 30 MGy resulting in severe damage to the collimator surfaces with melting in the bulk. The deformed collimator surface may lead to beam deposition in unexpected locations. A fan-out kicker is planned to mitigate the effects of whole beam dumps on the collimators.
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
A bunch duration monitor (BDM) was installed at the end of a synchrotron light monitor (SLM) port in the Advanced Photon Source (APS) booster synchrotron. The BDM is based on a fast Hamamatsu metal-semiconductor-metal detector with nominal rise and fall times of 30 ps. Bunch length data is especially important as the bunch charge will be raised from 3 nC, used in the existing machine, to as much as 18 nC for APS-Upgrade operation. During preliminary high-charge studies, the SLM image is observed to move over a period of minutes while the BDM signal intensity varies; the motion is likely due to thermal loading of the in-tunnel synchrotron light mirror. Work is underway to stabilize the position using a simple feedback system and motorized mirror mount, as well as a new synchrotron light mirror assembly with improved thermal load handling. The feedback system will maintain optical alignment on the BDM at an optimum position based on the SLM centroid location. The optical layout and feedback system will be presented along with preliminary bunch length data.
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) particle accumulator ring (PAR) was designed to accumulate linac pulses into a single bunch using a fundamental radio frequency (rf) system, and longitudinally compress the beam using a harmonic rf system prior to injection into the booster. The APS Upgrade injectors will need to supply full-current bunch replacement with high single-bunch charge for swap-out injection in the new storage ring. Significant bunch lengthening is observed in the PAR at high charge, which negatively affects beam capture in the booster. Predictions showed that the bunch length could be compressed to better match the booster acceptance using a combination of higher beam energy and higher harmonic gap voltage. A new 10-kW harmonic rf solid-state amplifier (SSA) was installed in 2021 to raise the gap voltage and improve bunch compression. The SSA has been operating reliably. Initial results show that the charge-dependent bunch lengthening in PAR with higher gap voltage agrees qualitatively with predictions. A tool was written to automate bunch length data acquisition. Future plans to increase the beam energy, which makes the SSA more effective, will also be summarized.
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
Fringe fields effects in dipoles can give rise to important linear and nonlinear contributions. This paper describes how to extend the classic results of Brown [1] and the more recent calculations of Hwang and Lee [2] to Cartesian dipoles with transverse and/or longitudinal gradients. We do this by 1) introducing a more general definition of the fringe field that can be applied to longitudinal gradient dipoles, 2) allowing for quadrupole and/or sextupole content in the magnet body, and 3) showing how to employ the resulting fringe field maps as a symplectic transformation of the coordinates. We compare our calculation results with tracking for longitudinal and transverse gradient dipoles planned for the APS-U.
[1] K.L. Brown, Report SLAC-75, 1982.
[2] K. Hwang and S.Y. Lee, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams, vol. 18, p. 122401 2015.
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
RadiaSoft LLC, Boulder, Colorado, USA
The Linac Extension Area at the Advanced Photon Source is a flexible beamline area for testing accelerator components and techniques. Driven by the Advanced Photon Source electron linac equipped with a photocathode RF electron gun, the Linac Extension Area houses a 12 m long beamline. The beamline is furnished with YAG screens, BPMs and a magnetic spectrometer to assist with characterization of beam emittance and energy spread. A 1.4 m long insertion in the middle of the beamline is provided for the installation of a device under test. The beamline is expected to be available soon for testing accelerator components and techniques using round and flat electron beams over an energy range 150-450 MeV. In the present work, we describe this beamline and summarise the main beam parameters.
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
We propose a novel beam loss detection scheme whereby activation of deionised cooling water is used to observe elevated radiation around the APS storage ring. This is based on radioactivation of oxygen within deionised cooling water by gamma rays above 10 MeV and neutrons above 15 MeV. Losses would be detected using a gamma ray detector monitoring process water flow out of the accelerator enclosure. We anticipate that this could be used to provide a segmented, distributed loss monitor system covering the accelerator components closest to locations where radiation is generated.
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
Using transfer maps to simulate charged particle motion in accelerators is advantageous since it is much faster than tracking step-by-step. One challenge to using transfer maps is to properly include radiation effects. The effect of radiation can be divided into deterministic and stochastic parts. While computation of the deterministic effect has been previously reported, handling of the stochastic part has not. In this paper, an algorithm for including the stochastic effect is presented including taking into account the finite opening angle of the emitted photons. A comparison demonstrates the utility of this approach. Generating maps which include radiation has been implemented in the PTC software library which is interfaced to the Bmad toolkit.
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
UTK, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan
A realistic full duty factor laser stripping charge exchange injection scheme for future 1.3 GeV beam at the SNS is considered. Different schemes of laser stripping involving combinations of photoexcitation, photoionization and magnetic field stripping are calculated. The laser power and magnetic field strength needed for different approaches are estimated and compared. The most practical scheme of laser stripping is selected for development.
Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
USC, Los Angeles, California, USA
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Photonics integrated photocathodes can result in advanced electron sources for various accelerator applications. In such photocathodes, light can be directed using waveguides and other photonic components on the substrate underneath a photoemissive film to generate electron emission from specific locations at sub-micron scales and at specific times at 100-femtosecond scales along with triggering novel photoemission mechanisms resulting in brighter electron beams and enabling unprecedented spatio-temporal shaping of the emitted electrons. In this work we have demonstrated photoemission confined in the transverse direction using a nanofabricated Si3N4 waveguide underneath a 40-nm thick cesiated GaAs photoemissive film, thus demonstrating a proof of principle feasibility of such photonics integrated photocathodes. This work paves the way to integrate the advances in the field of photonics and nanofabrication with photocathodes to develop better electron sources.
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
We have developed an orbit correction / feedback program to unify the existing orbit-related feedback systems for stable beam operation at NSLS-II. Until recently only a handful of beamlines have been benefiting from long-term orbit stability provided by a local bump agent program. To expand this to all the beamlines as well as correct more frequently, a new slow orbit feedback program called unified orbit feedback (UOFB) was written from scratch that works with the fast orbit feedback transparently, while accumulated fast corrector strength is continuously shifted to the slow correctors and RF frequency is adjusted for circumference change. UOFB can lock 3 different types of local bumps to the target offsets/angles for days: those for insertion device (ID) sources with only ID RF beam position monitors (BPM) or mixtures of ID RF BPMs and X-ray BPMs, and those for bending magnet sources with arc BPMs between which orbit correctors, dipoles and quadrupoles exist. Furthermore, this feed-back can accommodate beamline user requests to enable / disable the feedback loop for their beamline and to change bump target setpoints without turning off the loop.
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
Particle accelerators require continuous adjustment to maintain beam quality. At the Advanced Photon Source (APS) this is accomplished using a mix of operator-controlled and automated tools. To improve the latter, we explored the use of machine learning (ML) at the APS injector complex. The core approach we chose was Bayesian optimization (BO), which is well suited for sparse data tasks. To enable long-term online use, we modified BO into adaptive Bayesian optimization (ABO) though auxiliary models of device drift, physics-informed quality and constraint weights, time-biased data subsampling, digital twin retraining, and other approaches. ABO allowed for compensation of changes in inputs and objectives without discarding previous data. Benchmarks showed better ABO performance in several simulated and experimental cases. To integrate ABO into the operational workflow, we developed a Python command line utility, pysddsoptimize, that is compatible with existing Tcl/Tk tools and the SDDS data format. This allowed for fast implementation, debugging, and benchmarking. Our results are an encouraging step for the wider adoption of ML at APS.
Euclid TechLabs, Solon, Ohio, USA